The mayor of the village of Torysa near Sabinove has ordered the residents of the Roma settlement to remove illegal buildings. They are using the land on which their homes stand without any legal title.

According to the mayor of the village, Jozef Stedina, the residents of the settlement have not yet responded to repeated calls to legalize their homes and have not even paid a fine. For this reason, he sent them calls to definitively remove the illegal buildings within nine months.

This is a usual trend to remove settlements. The issue is that at the fall of communism, Roma were not given the land on which they lived. Thus, all buildings are illegal. The same argument was done in Bulgaria to remove Roma.

• Čierne stavby nezlegalizovali ani nezaplatili pokutu, štyristo Rómov môže prísť o strechu nad hlavou. In: Sita. 07.04.2025. https://sita.sk/cierne-stavby-nezlegalizovali-ani-nezaplatili-pokutu-styristo-romov-moze-prist-o-strechu-nad-hlavou/